"What is his name, and where is the old king ?" "You cannot have dwelt long in Meroe, Strangers," answered the woman suspiciously, "or you would know that the old King dwells with Osiris beneath yonder pyramid, where the general of the Pharaoh of Egypt, he who rules here now, buried him after the great battle.

Oh! it is a strange story, and I do not know the rights of it who sell my stuff and take little heed of such things.

But at the last high Nile before one this general came with three thousand soldiers of Egypt, and the body of the Prince of Kesh, whom it seems he had slain somewhere, it is said because both of them sought the favour of the Queen of Egypt.

As they tell, this was the command of that Queen--that he should submit himself to the King of Napata to be judged for his crime.

This he did, and the King in his fury commanded that he should be hanged from the mast of the sacred boat of Amen.